Check out this fun little java app — SignMaker! You pick the size of the size, the number of lanes, and any other elements you want … then it generates it against a lovely blue sky. The app was written by the husband-wife team at Kurumi.com, who refer to themselves as “roadgeeks”. I’m coming insanely late to this one; apparently, SignMaker won a Yahoo “Pick of the Week” award in 1998. But hey — better late than never.

While you’re trying it out, go look at this sign — illustrating 86 East and 291 West, two interstates that were once planned but never built.